Note 2016:The MCIP site is no longer being updated and is maintained as an archive. For the latest on Vasalgel, please see Parsemus Foundation, and for updates on male contraception development and advocacy, please visit the dynamic new organization Male Contraception Initiative.

MCIP also recommends MaleContraceptives.org, a user-friendly overview of hormonal and nonhormonal male contraceptive research, for background information through 2006 (it is no longer being updated regularly).

Organizations Active in Male Contraception

Parsemus Foundation
The first foundation to fund ultrasound research to test Dr. Fahim’s work on ultrasound, and the foundation working to bring the RISUG technology to men outside India (it will be called VasalgelTM) by starting the research process in the U.S.

Resources and data

Birth Control Methods
Information about current birth control methods, aimed at the public. From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health.

Managing Contraception
Additional descriptions of current birth control methods, from the authors of “Contraceptive Technology.” Also includes a Q & A page.

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals’ Contraception Resource Center
ARHP is a nonprofit organization comprised of reproductive health experts. This online resource center on contraception educates “health care providers and the general public about contraception and the many methods available today. It includes comprehensive lists of contraceptive methods as well as links to brochures, journals, online interactive tools, and other materials.”

PubMed
The National Library of Medicine portal to scientific publications.

Guttmacher Institute
The Guttmacher Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education. It publishes Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, International Family Planning Perspectives, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, and special reports on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Male Contraception Using Testicular Heating: Suspensory method
One man’s careful documentation of his experience with artificial cryptorchidism, complete with photo and sperm count charts. An example of a man carefully doing all the background research to fully inform himself of knowns and unknowns before starting a heat method. It also serves as a warning: after more than 10 years of using the heat method, his fertility never fully came back when he stopped.

Male Contraception Using Testicular Heating: Hot bath method
One adventurous man’s informal, humorous blog chronicles his DIY experience with contraception by testicular baths and then tracking his sperm motility with a microscope, using himself as a guinea pig to test the effects of different regimens.

No-scalpel Vasectomy videos
Several videos of vasectomy being done, starting with a video of Dr. Ronald Weiss, an NSV expert in Canada, performing a no-scalpel, no-needle vasectomy. (From a commercial site, a company that sells NSV tools to doctors.)